Dodgers: How Does the Trevor Bauer News Affect LA’s Plan This Offseason?

Trevor Bauer has been reinstated after an impartial arbitrator reduced his suspension from 324 video games to 194. Which means the Dodgers are on the hook for almost 70% of Bauer’s $32 million wage in 2023, whether or not they hold him on their roster or not.

The #Dodgers plan to launch Trevor Bauer however haven’t introduced a choice.

Los Angeles had reportedly been trying to get under the luxury tax for subsequent yr, however which may not be potential now. (For extra on why they could already be over the tax together with a proof of why it’s an enormous deal to get underneath the tax, click here.)

So the query turns into, what does L.A. do from right here? There are stories that the Dodgers don’t plan to play Bauer. If these stories are correct, they may attempt to commerce him and get a little bit monetary reduction from his contract, or they may merely launch him.

However the Dodgers nonetheless have holes on their roster. As of now, Gavin Lux is their beginning shortstop, and whereas they are saying they’re comfortable with that idea, they could favor him and his athleticism at second base now that the shift has been banned. We additionally don’t know who will play middle discipline for Los Angeles; they’ve inner choices in James Outman, Trayce Thompson, and Chris Taylor, however they’re reportedly in the market for a longtime center-fielder.

In a method, this might liberate the Dodgers to be extra aggressive, as a result of there’s not a lot profit to being one greenback over the tax threshold as an alternative of $20 million. In the event that they settle for that they’re over the tax restrict anyway, a complete new world of alternatives opens up. Not as large a world as if the Bauer resolution had been handed down earlier than the Winter Meetings, in fact, however the Dodgers weren’t prone to be handing out the type of contracts plenty of the massive free brokers have gotten, anyway.

In a method, Bauer is the least consequential a part of the massive Bauer information. Determining what to do with him isn’t straightforward, however it’s a one-time resolution. However having his wage on the books fully reshapes their considering for 2023, which may change their technique the remainder of this offseason.

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